The ACLU of Wisconsin today announced that Dr. Melinda Brennan has been chosen to lead the organization as its executive director after an extensive, nationwide search. Dr. Brennan, born and raised in Wisconsin, called the opportunity “a dream come true.” … Continue Reading »
Xin Huang is honored to receive a Research Assistance Fund grant form UWM to support a book manuscript tā is working on entitled Picturing Life: Gender and Photo-based Life Narrative. This book analyzes how lives, history, and gender are constructed … Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner is pleased to have received a Research Assistance Fund grant to cover the cost of professionally indexing her forthcoming book, Feminism’s Empire (Cornell University Press, June 2022). Feminism’s Empire examines the first late 19th-century French feminists to engage … Continue Reading »
The Women’s Resource Center, Women’s & Gender Studies, and the Black Student Cultural Center are hosting a Safe Space Dialogue to discuss events in Kenosha surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that impact us all. This is a great opportunity to … Continue Reading »
Krista Grensavitch, Senior Lecturer for Women’s & Gender Studies, contributed to “Naming is Power: Citation Practices in SoTL” in Teaching & Learning Inquiry. This article, an example of collaborative research within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) explores the … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies’ Senior Lecturer, Krista Grensavitch, is a Curator/Contributor for the Hostile Terrains exhibit currently on view at the Emile H. Mathis Gallery at UW-Milwaukee. Hostile Terrains at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee examines the intersection of space, policy … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to WGS Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner, who was awarded a UWM Office of Research/Foundation Research Award during the Fall, 2021 semester. Carolyn Eichner, Department of History and Women’s & Gender Studies, is an internationally recognized scholar of French feminist … Continue Reading »
The UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and the UW System Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian is calling for proposals for this year’s conference. This year’s theme is Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future. Proposals from … Continue Reading »
Did you know Women’s & Gender Studies Graduate Program offers not just a Master of Arts in WGS (MA), but also a combined Master of Arts in WGS and a Master of Library and Information Science degree (MA/MLIS) as well … Continue Reading »
With joy we announce that our wonderful colleague, Dr. Krista Grensavitch , is being recognized by the Accessibility Resource Center for the 2021 ARC Excellence Award! Congratulations! Please join us in celebrating this accomplishment and the dedication of Dr. G … Continue Reading »